ITALY: Amnesty

In Rome, July 29 was commemorated fittingly; for on that day, 25 years ago, King Umberto, father of the present Monarch, was assassinated by an anarchist Italian hailing from Paterson, N.J.

King Vittorio Emanuele and Queen Mother Margherita, widow of the murdered King, attended mass near the tomb of King Umberto in the Pantheon. Signor Cremonesi, Royal Commissioner of Rome, sent telegrams on behalf of the citizens to the King and Queen Mother, and issued a proclamation to the people, as a commemoration document, deploring the crime that ended King Umberto's life.

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